High DPI Support
Get the most from your screens with the new high DPI support. Pin sharp resolution for 4K monitors and devices like Surface Pro tablets, but a bonus even for lower resolution screens.
New Content Type: Headers
We've added 10 professional new header designs to the Online Content Catalog, ideal for presentations and the perfect place to get started with a blank document. They're set to 'repeating' by default and automatically size and position themselves at the top of the page on insertion. A great time saver!
Some of the new header templates in the Content Catalog
Enhanced PDF Editing
We've made a significant improvement to the way that missing fonts are handled in imported PDF documents, plus a host of more minor accuracy improvements. It's another step up in Designer Pro's already great PDF editing capability!
Updated CMYK Color Profile
A much requested improvement to the display of CMYK colors on screen, and in any export formats that require the conversion of CMYK to RGB. A change to the default color profile means you will see a more accurate representation of CMYK colors on screen.
New Content
There's a bumper addition to the Online Content Catalog (available if you have an active subscription to
Xara Cloud+ or an active
Update Service for Designer Pro X) including the first designs in our new Header category:
- 10 new presentation templates in Presentations > Presentation Themes
- 6 new diagrams in Components > Print & Web Components (*New category)
- 9 new header designs in Components > Print & Web Components (*New category)
- 4 new text panels in Components > Print & Web Components
- 5 new tables in Components > Print & Web Components
- 3 new photo frames & Photo Panels in Components > Image Resources
- 30 new Facebook templates in the Social Media category
- 30 new Instagram templates in the Social Media category
Smart Duplication
A quick and easy way to create multiple copies of objects or components, horizontally or vertically, with a single click-drag, and a really simple way to handle object spacing.
The new Smart Duplicate feature will help you cut down tedious repetition in your design work, and make experimention easy!
Drag on the Smart Duplication handles to create multiple copies. Adjust the spacing with the Spacing Handle
New & Improved Handles
We've continued the work to modernize and simplify the handles, to give a cleaner and more productive workspace for both the Shape Tool and Quickshapes.
New Shape Tool handles
Enhanced Web Export Options
The Web Export options have been moved into the Web Properties dialog, alongside all other web settings - a more logical arrangement that will improve your workflow - and we've added some new controls:
- Firstly you now have a finer level of control over transition effects, with separate controls for transition effect and transition direction, giving you scope for all sorts of new and interesting transition effects.
- We've also added greater control over the new features introduced to presentations and web documents in the past few releases, so you can choose separately whether you want to display the PDF download option, page navigation panel and Xara logo next to your presentations or web documents.
- When you preview a website it now opens in your default local browser instead of the internal preview window, for a faster and more reliable preview.
Other Improvements
- New typographic options with 44 additional Google Fonts - there are now more than 900 Google fonts to choose from
- As with every Designer Pro release, we've introduced improvements to import and export formats like SVG, Word, Powerpoint and inDesign.